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Marquise Technologies to launch ICE, the reference player for IMF, DCP and many other formats in a new desktop version

Geneva, Switzerland - Marquise Technologies announced today a revolutionary version of ICE (for Image Control Engine) able to playback in real-time and QC industry standards on regular desktop systems, including 4K 60 FPS.

As a reference player, ICE offers unrivalled tools to monitor media on any kind of display (computer display, reference monitor or DCI projector). An exhaustive NLE timeline with display of video, audio and subtitle tracks, markers and reels give full view of the content. Frame rate accuracy and synchronized audio are guaranteed by the SDI output capabilities. Histogram, waveform, and vectorscope are also part of the toolbox for color information analysis (including a diagram view of the color spaces for REC 709, REC2020 and ACES). On the audio side, a full set of meters allow Loudness measurement (EBU R128) and peak control. Subtitle checking is made easy with the display of text lines and spotting list metadata including fade in/out and a list of font and styles.

The most advanced player for IMF, DCP
These formats have a high level of complexity in their packages, ICE offers a clear interface to pick the desired Composition Play List and plays it instantly, no matter if it is a supplementary package or if there are multiple CPLs or PKLs. Extensive metadata are also displayed for an immediate understanding of the content. Compliance with standards is checked with a validation process with more than 50 tests on each package, and the result is available as a PDF report. JPEG2000 decoding uses a high quality codec utilizing the GPU, allowing real-time play back up to 4K 60 p for encrypted DCP and up to UHD with high bit rate encoding for IMF.

Extensive format support
Because content needs to be controlled at every stage in the workflow, ICE supports a full range of RAW data and many mezzanine formats, including AS-11 DPP, ProRes 444, Avid DNxHD 444, or XDCAM. When available, metadata for these formats are also displayed for the ease of monitoring.

With this new desktop version, ICE fulfills the needs of many post-production facilities: affordable licensing (per seat or per site), combined with lower hardware requirements allow them to turn any editing room in a screening room when needed. Dubbing studios can also use ICE in their existing infrastructure, and sync it with their audio devices using RS422 protocol.
For content owners, ICE offers viewing conditions equal to the final destination and allows non-technical staff to easily play back and review final deliverables.

“This new version of ICE is the answer to many requests we have had from the industry: an easy to deploy software solution covering the complex needs of today and tomorrow’s workflows. With the advent of IMF, H265 and UHDTV, accompanied by well-known standards for Digital Cinema and the challenge of new digital camera file formats, facilities need a single player to use as reference for playing back media from SD to 4K without prior ingest or transcoding. ICE is the perfect Reference Player for any facility, post, broadcast and production company.” says Laurence Stoll, CEO at Marquise Technologies.

ICE is already available in a watermarked demo version for testing its numerous features, and will be available for purchase for IBC.

Visit Marquise Technologies at IBC 2015

About Marquise Technologies

Marquise Technologies designs state-of-the-art solutions for the digital cinema post-production, the broadcast industry and the OTT’ service providers. The company addresses post-production facilities and digital film labs and provides them with high-end solutions for image processing, data conforming, color grading, mastering and transcoding for Digital Cinema & UHDTV.

Archimedia has released Iris 1.0, a suite of applications that the company says overcomes six specific areas where file-based media production and distribution traditionally bog down.

“People who are involved with file-based workflow recognise these areas immediately,” says Mark Gray, CEO of Archimedia. “They are places in file-based workflow that are fundamentally different than linear workflow, and where unprecedented challenges slow things down.”

Overcoming these delays has not been easy. For the past eight years, Archimedia engineers have examined file based video production from all angles, built applications, and tested them at 14 beta sites. That work is done and Archimedia is releasing Iris 1.0, a suite of applications designed to change these six areas of delay into areas where workflow can be accelerated.

Of the applications that are part of the Iris 1.0 suite, two are technical, three aid communication and collaboration, and one enhances project management.

The six workflow points of delay and Iris 1.0’s approach to resolving them include:

Coordinating Multiple Locations - There was a time when video production was limited by the physical presence of the master tape. But now file components are broken apart and worked on in many locations simultaneously. When remote workers cannot “see” the file work in progress, it can be hard to explain changes that need to be made. Iris puts a frame-accurate view of the file on every content production and distribution team member’s computer screen, anywhere in the building or anywhere in the world. Because team members see the work being done by others in real time, the whole team can work faster.

ANNOUNCING DARK ENERGY PRO 3

Dark Energy Pro 4 is coming! Cinnafilm have released of the newest version of their award-winning Dark Energy Pro texture toolset available. The updates are significant, and reflect the commitment to evolving the science in new ways and keeping the technology the very best in the world.

The update includes the new features below as a reminder, you must be fully up to speed on your annual maintenance to take advantage of these amazing updates (contact us if you need renewal or are not sure when your maintenance expires):

Swiss-based developer of high-end solutions for post-production Marquise Technologies is expanding its product range with TORNADO, a high powered media processing engine designed to be integrated in the facilities’ infrastructure, permitting them to build their personalized automated transcoding workflows.

Designed to answer the growing needs for automated multiple renders of high-resolution motion-picture content for deliveries to the digital cinema & broadcast industry and the OTT vendors, TORNADO is a transcoding server that is remote controllable by any orchestration solution or in-house workflow management tools.

In addition to support for all majors industry formats, including digital camera RAW data, mezzanine formats and uncompressed image sequences up to 8K, TORNADO’s main aptitude is to revolutionize the way post-houses deal with DCP and IMF packaging operations.

Automatic creation of master packages or supplemental packages, technical operations like split, merge, re-wrapping or repair are available for IMF App 2 and App 2e.

By achieving up to 240 FPS in JPEG2000 encoding at 4K resolution, TORNADO is also the most powerful transcoding solution available for Digital Cinema content creation.

TORNADO can also provide the simultaneous rendering of multiple files, speeding up the process of delivering the different versions of a release to broadcasters and OTT.

“TORNADO allows service providers to increase their competitive advantage, providing both high efficiency in transcoding and multiple concurrent workflows. It’s filling the gap between mastering and delivering” says Laurence Stoll, CEO of Marquise Technologies.

TORNADO is available as a turn-key server with hardware acceleration for JPEG2000 encoding, or as a software only solution for integrators and cloud-based services.

Visit Marquise Technologies at NAB 2015

About Marquise Technologies

Marquise Technologies designs state-of-the-art solutions for the digital cinema post-production, the broadcast industry and the OTT’ service providers. The company addresses post-production facilities and digital film labs and provides them with high-end solutions for image processing, data conforming, color grading, mastering and transcoding for Digital Cinema & UHDTV.

Big Pic Media and DFT are proud to announce a partnership on the West Coast of the USA for the sales management in the area for all capital equipment sales.

DFT are renowned as world leaders in film scanning technology and have supplied the iconic Spirit range of scanners as well as the ultimate film scanning machine – The Scanity.

The requirement for 4k uncompressed source material is now high on everyone’s agenda and film is a great medium for re-scanning, restoring and re-mastering the highest quality images for today’s 4k requirements whether they be for cinema or soon to be at home.

DFT provides new Scanity machines and a host of upgrades for the Spirit family including film gates, 4k upgrades, Scalers. There is also a comprehensive development roadmap in place for the Scanity with new features being added throughout the year.

BPM will also assist in the customer liaison for support requirements, DFT maintain a support team in LA and still support all of the existing machines with a wide range of comprehensive support offerings.

Please contact dave@bigpicmedia.net if you have any questions or would like to discuss upgrades or new machines.